Deutsche Bahn will not renegotiate with the railway workers' union EVG, the company's head of human resources, Martin Seiler, said after the state-owned rail operator struck a deal with train drivers' union GDL earlier on Tuesday.
"We have existing collective agreements with EVG that run until the end of March next year," Seiler said in Berlin on Tuesday. "We have not agreed a renegotiation clause, and in this respect we see ourselves at the negotiating table with EVG in around a year's time."
Deutsche Bahn and EVG reached a wage agreement last summer, which includes a pay increase of €410 ($445) per month over a period of 25 months. In addition, structural increases in the pay scales were agreed for individual occupational groups, which will be applied after this contract period.
The collective agreement reached on Tuesday with the smaller GDL differs from this deal in that it includes a reduction of working hours from the current 38 per week to 35 in several stages by 2029, with wages remaining the same.
